Outreach

We like to interact with schools, colleges, business and the public.

 

School visits

Would you like to arrange a school visit? Academics from our broad range of subjects can deliver lectures or workshops at your school or college.

'Talking of Language' webinar series

Linguistics and English Language are organising a webinar series, Talking of Language, a series of free online talks. The 30-minute webinars are aimed at students in the final years of school, such as Year 11 to 13 students in the UK. Other people fascinated by the topics are welcome to join the sessions too, of course!

STELLAR

STELLAR is a free one-day workshop for teachers of English Language, Linguistics, and Related Subjects. Unfortunately we are unable to run STELLAR 2020.

Corpus for schools

Corpus resources for A-level English Language teachers and EFL/ESL teachers. The aim of the project is to bring corpora and corpus methods into classrooms.

Free Online Courses

We run free online courses in partnership with FutureLearn. These are sometimes referred to as 'MOOCs', or massive open online courses. You can register online to join any of the courses listed below - you just need access to a computer, tablet or mobile phone to learn with us. Courses re-run at regular intervals.

Corpus linguistics: method, analysis, interpretation

Developed by one of the top academics in the field of corpus linguistics, Professor Tony McEnery, this MOOC offers practical introduction to the methodology of corpus linguistics for researchers in social sciences and humanities.

Dyslexia and language teaching

This MOOC is aimed at English language teachers, teachers of modern foreign languages, teacher trainers, educators and trainee teachers who are interested in how they can accommodate and cater for the needs of students with dyslexia in foreign/second language classes.

Language & Style

You could describe Language & Style as an early MOOC. It is a web-based online course developed by Professor Mick Short, covering all three major literary genres (poetry, prose and drama), and also other text-types, such as advertisements.

Shakespearean Language: Revealing Meanings and Exploring Myths

Coming soon - The Shakespearean Language MOOC is under development and will run for the first time in 2021. Look out for details nearer the time.

Podcasts

En Claire

En clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present.

Words and Actions

Words and Actions is a podcast about how language matters in business, politics and beyond.

Projects

Impoliteness: Using and Understanding the Language of Offence

This website focuses on language that is generally considered anti-social, and is labelled by a wide-range of terms such as impolite, rude, inconsiderate, verbally abusive, etc. It aims at describing that language and explaining how it works.

Edwardian Postcard Project

Forget about Snapchat, WhatsApp and Facebook, for the Edwardians it was all about the picture postcard! The Edwardian Postcard Project has made freely available a database of 1000 cards, their transcriptions and some historical data.